i got a rbta for 10 bucks and it is under my paly rock ?

jerth6932

jerth6932

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coral guy

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woyld it be possible for my rbta to eat a small tailspot blennies or a small mccoskers wrasse or a 2 in yellow watchman gobies
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jerth6932

jerth6932

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If it can get ahold of them it will try! Why did those disapear? I hope not, its cheaper to feed silversides :rotfl:
 
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coral guy

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the gobies were 11 bucks when i got em . i want to feed him mysis for now them when he gets bigger krill, when 5to 6in then i will try chopping a silverside it to half it length and when its about 9 in i will feed it a whole silverside.but for now i will just do my best to help my rbta grow .
 
1guydude

1guydude

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o itll prob eat a silverdale...its wat like 3in. I have 2 little strawberry anenomes in my tank. They came as hitchhikers. They eat mysis thats bigger than them! Watch itll be gone in like 10min tops!
 
jerth6932

jerth6932

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Myisis is cool now, but imo you don't have to wait till 9in for silversides, 5in max for a smaller silverside, maybe even larger silver. You will know what it can handle, it will grab and release (for the most part) anything too big for it.
 
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coral guy

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i just dont want it to yurn into monster size by the way the tank is a 45 gallon and i dont want it to suffocate my other coral
 
jerth6932

jerth6932

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Understood, but as you should know from your fathers, they do split keeping their sized in "check", some what. My nem I feed once a month silverside, and the rest of the time it gets the astrea stars that are present in the tank, that I scrape off the glass into it.
 
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coral guy

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i think mines trying to split i loord at it closey and i saw that it was being strecthed more than normal the tissue was stuck to a different rock and the foot looked strecthed more to i fed it yesterday. now right now my mhs burned out and dont have much $$$ i got my pcs out to keep the coral alive now i am looking for ho t5 or a new 175 watt halide.
 
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coral guy

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mine rbta has a wierd yellow green pinkish on the tip of my rbta tentacles is that normal or odd.
 
tur4k

tur4k

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My BTA spent about 10 months on the underside of a rock at the back of the tank where I couldn't get to him to feed him. He started out as a little more then two inches. Over those 10 months he shrank down to a little less then one inch. Today I finally broke down and flipped the rock he was attached to so that he's on top of it now. I had to break part of a Montipora Capricornis to do it. He hasn't moved at all yet. Hopefully he will stay there where he can get lots of light and food.
 
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